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Use Suprtool/AMXW to read, select, and sort data from
Oracle, Allbase and Eloquence databases and data files with fixed-length
records. Suprtool/AMXW is designed to be similar to Suprtool for MPE while
providing necessary HP-UX features. It is designed to work with AMXW an MPE
environment from Speedware that runs on other platforms.

Suprlink/AMXW provides high-speed data-file linking based
on a sort key. Use STExport for AMXW to convert fields in a self-describing
input file into an output file that can be imported into different
applications.

·Suprlink now has it’s own
“Suprmgr” file. Suprlink will process all the commands in /opt/robelle/linkmgr
on startup.

·STExport now has it’s own
“Suprmgr” file. STExport will process all the commands in /opt/robelle/stexpmgr
on startup.

·Suprtool for AMXW would not stop / abort Suprtool
when using the list command and the target file filled up.

·Suprtool now has the $proper function which will
shift the first character in a string and any first character after a space or
ampersand.

·Suprtool now has the Translate command and a
$translate function to obfuscate test data or any byte field from being
readable.

·Suprtool output,else with
extract commands and sort in play would write bogus data to the Else file.
(non-MPE platforms)

·Suprtool for AMXW did not create a self-describing
file when output,link was specified and the input
source was a non-self describing flat file equated to a dataset. (Fixed in
Build 2)

·Suprtool for Itanium and Suprtool/Open incorrectly
reallocated if/extract code space on subsequent tasks, which would eventually
cause Suprtool to fail with the error, “Unable to allocate heap space.”. This
issue could also contribute to a Sort failure errors, in Suprtool for AMXW.

·Suprtool for AMXW
had a conflict with the AMXW copy command when copying a C/ISAM or emulated
KSAM file.

·Suprtool for AMXW
could not append to an empty KSAM file.

·Suprtool, Suprlink
and STExport now handle 512 fields on HP-UX and Open platforms.

·Suprtools' extract
command now has three special keywords to help with extract using a range,
which is designed to make your Suprtool scripts more easily maintained.
Suprtool now has $all, $first and $last which respectively means all fields,
the first field or the last field. Note that $first and $last may only be used
in a range extract.

·$subcount has been
added to keep a running count for a given sort break.

·Suprtool for HP-UX and AMXW would potentially
incorrectly set the decimal or date attribute on a straight copy of an SD file.
This was introduced by the fix to copying SD files with duplicate fieldnames
and was in 5.5.04 pre-release and 5.5.11 and 5.6 Build 1. This is fixed in
Suprtool 5.6 Build 2 and Suprtool/Open Build 3.

·Suprtool for AMXW would print an error message
when doing a straight get of a dataset to a flat file with no extract command.
(Fixed in Suprtool 5.6 Build 2)

·Suprtool for AMXW would not show fieldnames on a
list of an SD file with no extract command. (Fixed in Suprtool 5.6 Build 2)

·Suprtool for AMXW
will now detect if the output file has CCTL and will use the correct
controlcode on the FWRITE to the Output file.

·Suprtool for AMXW Itanium version now supports
more defined fields.

·Suprtool would use
an incorrect field definition when copying a file where the input file had a
duplicate field name with different field definition, the second field would
utilize the first definition.

·Suprtool would give
an incorrect result when doing an arithmetic expression with more than one set
of brackets and the data involved is Packed-Decimal. (Itanium only)

·Suprtool and STExport
would incorrectly assume a positive sign for a packed-decimal field that had an
invalid sign value, when converting from Decimal to Ascii. (Itanium only)

·Suprtool for AMXW
did not allocate enough space to support the same number of defined fields and
items as previous versions.

·SetIfouroutputonextracts would fail at xeq time with an "Unknown if execute phase" error in the PA_RISCversion,whenanalignmentissue would occur in some
circumstances.

·Suprtool for AMXW
would fail to open a "KSAM" file in AMXW when the implementation was
done via CISAM.

There are two types of machines that HP has that run
HP-UX, the older machines are based on the PA_RISC chip and the new machines
that use the Itanium (and Itanium 2 chips). There are also program files that
are specific to each chip. PA_RISC programs can run on both PA_RISC and Itanium
machines, however, Itanium programs can only run on Itanium machines.

Any program that runs on Itanium must utilize libraries
that match its own program type. Therefore if a
PA_RISC program runs on Itanium and looks for a library, it must find/load the
PA_RISC version of the libraries that it needs and conversely an Itanium
program must load the libraries specific to its type.

How to Tell what Machine I am on?

There are many ways to tell what kind of machine you are
on, here are a couple:

uname -m

getconf MACHINE_MODEL

In each case the Itanium machine will typically say ia64
somewhere in the result of the above two commands. PA_RISC machines typically
say "9000" somewhere in the string.

What is the Program
File Type?

Since there are two types of machines there are also at
least two types of program files. Suprtool is primarily either PA_RISC 1.1 or
ELF-32 / IA64 which is also known as Itanium. To determine the type of program
file you can use the file command:

Itanium

file suprtool

suprtool:ELF-32 executable object file - IA64

PA_RISC

file suprtool

suprtool:PA-RISC1.1 executable dynamically linked
-not stripped

The PA_RISC binary can run on both platforms but you need
to have PA_RISC libraries for Eloquence or Oracle if you are using the Oracle
module. An Itanium binary will not run on a PA_RISC machine and will fail with
"cannot execute".

Ofcourse we've made a provision to identify if you are running the
ia version of Suprtool in the banner and verify command with the ia after the
UX :

SUPRTOOL/UXia/Copyright Robelle Solutions
Technology Inc. 1981-2009.

(Version 5.2 Internal)MON, JUN8, 2009, 11:26 AMType H for help.

PA_RISC Loading

Suprtool by default looks in the libraries in any of the
directories named in SHLIB_PATH.For
example to insure that Suprtool resolves the library loads you can set theSHLIB_PATH system
wide in your /etc/profile file in the following manner:

export
SHLIB_PATH=/opt/eloquence6/lib/pa11_32:/opt/oracle/lib

If you do not have the SHLIB_PATH variable set to a value
where the libraries can be found, Suprtool will then try to load from their
default names locations.For Eloquence the default location is
:/opt/eloquence6/lib/pa11_32.

The Oracle interface will first try to load libclntsh.so
and then attempt to load libclntsh.sl from $ORACLE_HOME/lib32/libclntsh.sl.

Itanium Loading

You can change Suprtool to pay attention to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and use dlopen to load libraries, you can set the environment
variable:

export ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD =Y.

It is generally advisable to use DLOPEN or the
ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD option when using the Itanium version. The PA_RISC version of
Suprtool can useeither type of loading, the default or the dlopen method invoked
with ROBELLE_DYN_LOAD.

Running the PA_RISC
version on Itanium:

You can of course run the PA_RISC version of Suprtool,
however, given that the PA_RISC version requires SHLIB_PATH to point to PA_RISC
libraries may go against the configuration necessary for other programs that
may need SHLIB_PATH to point to Native Itanium libraries.

The solution to this is fairly simple, you can create a
command file (let's say /opt/robelle/cmd/suprtool) that runs suprtool for you,
of course you need to insure your path variable has /opt/robelle/cmd before
/opt/robelle/bin.

You can then have the following commands in the
/opt/robelle/cmd/suprtool command file:

export SAVED_SHLIB_PATH=$SHLIB_PATH

export
SHLIB_PATH=/opt/oracle/pa_risc/lib:/opt/eloquence/lib/pa11_32

/opt/robelle/bin/suprtool $@

export SHLIB_PATH=$SAVED_SHLIB

Essentially all it does save the current SHLIB_PATH
setting, sets it to point to PA_RISC libraries, runs suprtool and then resets
the library back.

Suprtool for
Itanium

Now that you know all about PA_RISC and Itanium you do
need to be aware of what Suprtool for Itanium is in terms of new code and risk
for potential issues. Suprtool for Itanium is completely in C code. This does
not mean that it is all new C code however, the majority of the Suprtool code
is still based on SPL, but is converted to C, using Allegro's SPLASH compiler.

So while the C code is new it is
based on the original SPLash code, however, given differences between C and
SPLash not all code can be automatically converted in some cases. We worked closely
with Allegro to find ways to have the source code work and address the various
issues that came up. The entire time Allegro improved the SPLash to C
converter.

So while we are based on the
original Suprtool we do have new code paths in the Native Itanium version and
other potential issues where the C code might not work in exactly the same
manner as the SPLash code.

Having said that we have tested this against our test
suites, and improved and added a large number of tests to our HP-UX test
suites. We also began Alpha testing 24 months ago and have been beta testing
for the last year with our two best VAR customers.

So what happens is if
an output link file is created with a file equation making the file bigger, any
subsequent files that are created from the resulting output file are actually
made smaller as you can see below.

Suprtool for AMXW now honours the physical record
size and the FILE80A file will now have a record size of 80.

The HP-UX and AMXW versions of AMXW no longer have Set
varsubcompat on as the default.The
default is now off and can be turned on with the set command or the –cv option.

Previously, Suprtool would treat an “R” type field in an
Eloquence database as an R type while the data inside Eloquence isstored and treated
as IEEE therefore incorrect results would occur with coercions and arithmetic
operations. Suprtool now by default maps all Real and Long fields to their
respective IEEE fields. You can change Suprtool back to the previous behaviourwith Set
RealMap Off.

A form command will still show the fields as being “R2” or
“R4”, but internally Suprtool will treat as IEEE, which is how Eloquence stores
and treats the numbers.

Consequently STExport will now
support items in SD files that are condidered R type, however it correctly will
map them to IEEE.

Suprtool/UX 5.0 is now compatible with all versions of
HP-UX 11.2x, as well as Oracle version 8 and higher.

Suprtool/UX version 4.8.02 and lower is compatible with
HP-UX 9.0 and higher and Oracle 7.

Fastread option is now set to On for Suprtool for HP-UX
the regular version. The Dynamic loading version of Suprtool has adefault value of
off to start.

Suprtool 5.2 is necessary for use with Oracle 11 and case
sensitive passwords.

This program runs only on CPUs whose serial numbers have
been encoded (the "uname" on HP-UX). If it fails to run and you get
an "invalid HPSUSAN" error message, contact Robelle for assistance,
via support@robelle.com or the support
number at 1-800-453-8970.

The user
manual contains the full description of all the Suprtool suite of products
including Dbedit, Suprlink, STExport, and Suprtool2, as well as usage tips and
commands for each. The manuals are up-to-date with all the latest changes. To
see only the changes in the latest version, see the "What's New"
section of the manual.

You can
download our manuals and Change Notices in various formats and order printed
(hardcopy) manuals from our web site at:

You can find the Suprtool for AMXW build on your system
instructions on the link below. You will need this install if you are going to
require the KSAM option, Dynamic Image loading or Omnidex support, or intend to
run on Itanium:

If you have any questions or run into any problems, please
call us. Technical support is available on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Pacific time at 1.289.480.1060. Technical support can also be obtained via
e-mail at: support@robelle.comIf your new version of software will not run,
you can page someone from technical support by calling the support number, or
you can typically easily run extend with the disaster option to tide you over
until business hours. Instructions for this are available at:

The if / extract
commands can now utilize a new function called $LEADZEROZ, which allows you to
add leading zeroes to a specific display field. This was designed specifically
for the extract command and fixing up data but can be used in the if command as
well.

$NUMBER is
capable of fixing up numbers, but the new $LEADZEROZ function is more
lightweight and simply adds leading zeroes, and has an option to justify right
as shown below. The source data looks like this:

/PRINT
LEADZERO

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

12

12345

220

Which can be
fixed in the following manner:

RUN
SUPRTOOL.PUB.ROBELLE

SUPRTOOL/Copyright
Robelle Solutions Technology Inc. 1981-2017.

(Version
6.0 Internal)Mon, Feb 27, 2017,3:48 PMType H for help.

>IN
LEADZERO.SUPRTEST

>DEF
A,1,12,DISPLAY

>EXT
A=$LEADZEROZ(A,J)

>out
*

>xeq

000000000001

000000000002

000000000003

000000000004

000000000005

000000000006

000000000007

000000000008

000000000009

000000000010

000000000012

000000012345

000000000220

IN=13,
OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

The $LEADZEROZ
function cannot fix issues like commas and decimal places in a display field,
this can be handled by the $number function.

The if / extract
commands can now utilize a new function called $LEADZEROB, which allows you to
add leading zeroes to a specific byte field. This was designed specifically for
the extract command and fixing up data but can be used in the if command as
well. The data looks like this:

Enhancements in Version 5.9

The if / extract commands can now utilize a new function
called $Month, which will add a given number of months to a given date in the
format of ccyymmdd or yyyymmdd.

For Example:

In
somefile

Item
mydate,date,ccyymmdd

Def
targetdate,1,4,double

Ext
targetdate=$month(mydate,+4)

The above task will take the field mydate and add four
months to it. Suprtool will check if the date is valid and adjust the date
within reason. For example if the given month for
mydate has 31 days and the day is 31, and the month mydate becomes when the
date is added to has only 30 days. The date will be adjusted to have the 30th
for the day.

The Excel command can be used to produce columns of data
that when imported will preserve spaces or leading zeroes.

EXCEL PRESERVE <fieldname>

Example

STExport can generate columns that are imported into Excel
in such a way that leading zeroes are preserved. While the format produced is
not traditional CSV, the format will produce a field in the form:

="00055555"

This form when imported into Excel will preserve the
leading zeroes. In order to invoke this format the
Excel command has very simple syntax:

$in filexcel

$col fixed

$quote double

$zero leading

$excel preserve newchar int-field

$out *

$xeq

These simple commands will generate a file that will have
the usually formatted fields as well as some fields formatted specifically for
preserving spaces and leading zeroes in Excel.

Suprtool/Open now has the ability to read MySQL databases
via the Open and Select commands. We are looking for alpha, beta testers and
feedback specifically on how to treat certain data items. Please e-mail Neil
Armstrong at neil@robelle.com to request
a trial of this software.

Suprtool now has $first and $last mnemonics, which can be
used on a range selection of records on the input command. It was designed to
handle a request to list the last N number of records in a file as in:

Input somefile($last-10/$last)

Suprtool will parse the Range selection and semantically
check if the record range entered is logical. For instance, $first-2 and
$last+10, which do not make logical sense would throw and error. Similarly if a record only has 5 records in it then $last-10
or $first+7, would also throw an error.

STExport now has it’s own
“suprmgr” file now, which will be executed on startup of STExport. STExport
will by default look for /opt/robelle/stexpmgr, or if $ROBELLE variable is set
it will execute $ROBELLE/stexpmgr.

Suprlink now has it’s own
“suprmgr” file now, which will be executed on startup of Suprlink. Suprlink
will by default look for /opt/robelle/linkmgr, or if $ROBELLE variable is set
it will execute $ROBELLE/linkmgr.

Suprtool now has the $proper function which will shift to
upper case the first character of a byte type field and after any space or
ampersand. It will also shift to lower case any other characters in the
byte-field.

>in mprod

>list stan

>xeq

Apr 29, 2014 13:00File: mprodPage 1

PRODUCT-DESC

skil 3/8" variable speed drill

b&d router

skil var. sp. auto-scroll saw

skil 8 1/2" circular saw

b&d cordless screwdriver

makita 8 1/4" circular saw

b&d variable speed jigsaw

makita 1/2" router

makita 3/8" var. speed drill

skil router

b&d 7 1/4" circular saw

b&d 3/8" variable speed drill

makita 1" jigsaw

Considering the following data, you can fix all of the
product names with one simple task:

>in mprod

>ext product-desc=$proper(product-desc)

>list stan

>xeq

May 01, 2014 11:40File: MPRODPage 1

PRODUCT-DESC

Skil 3/8" Variable Speed Drill

B&D Router

Skil Var. Sp. Auto-Scroll Saw

Skil 8 1/2" Circular Saw

B&D Cordless Screwdriver

Makita 8 1/4" Circular Saw

B&D Variable Speed Jig Saw

Makita 1/2" Router

Makita 3/8" Var. Speed Drill

Skil Router

B&D 7 1/4" Circular Saw

B&D 3/8" Variable Speed Drill

Makita 1" Jig Saw

Note that any
character after a space, “&”, or “-“ is upshifted
for a proper name. Suprtool will also downshift those characters that do not
qualify as needing proper capitalization and it is a capital character, the
proper function will downshift those characters. See an example below:

Suprtool now has a $translate function which in conjunction
with the translate command allows you to build a translation table, whereby you
can translate from any byte character to any character. We have also added a
method to a supplied translate table which will allow you to obscure the data
such that it can’t be read.

>in
newprod

>list

>xeq

>IN
NEWPROD.NEIL.GREEN (0) >OUT $NULL (0)

PRODUCT-DESC= Skil 3/8" Variable Speed Drill

>IN
NEWPROD.NEIL.GREEN (1) >OUT $NULL (1)

PRODUCT-DESC= B&D Router

>in
newprod

>translate
tounread

>ext
product-desc=$translate(product-desc)

>out
unread,link

>xeq

IN=13,
OUT=13. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

>in
unread

>num
1

>list

>xeq

>IN
UNREAD.NEIL.GREEN (0) >OUT $NULL (0)

PRODUCT-DESC= Hzxo .2)? Epcxpqot Hatts Rcxoo

Warning:NUMRECS exceeded; some records not processed.

IN=2,
OUT=1. CPU-Sec=1. Wall-Sec=1.

>in
unread

>translate
toread

>ext
product-desc=$translate(product-desc)

>list

>xeq

>IN
UNREAD.NEIL.GREEN (0) >OUT $NULL (0)

PRODUCT-DESC= Skil 3/8" Variable Speed Drill

>IN
UNREAD.NEIL.GREEN (1) >OUT $NULL (1)

PRODUCT-DESC= B&D Router

You can make your
own Translate table using the Translate command, where you can specify the
character you want to translate and what you want to translate to, using
Decimal Notation. So if you want to translate “A” to
“Z”, you would type the command:

Translate “^65:^90”

So you specify the from character on the left
in decimal which is the capital-A and the to-character is also in decimal
format which is capital-Z, which is decimal 90. If you want to reverse the
translation you can simply do the following command and translate the field
back with:

Translate “^90:^65”

This is not meant to be an encryption solution, but it
will help obfuscate test date really quickly. (5.6.12)

Suprtool's extract command now has three new keywords,
which can be used for extract range feature. You can now say extract $all, extract$first /
$last on an SD file or Image/Eloquence dataset. The intention is to make your
scripts more easily maintained. If you had a script that you wanted to put a
sequence number at the beginning and then extract the rest of the dataset you
previously had to specify the starting field and the ending field. For example if the first field in a dataset was order-no and the
last field was pst-code you may have a script that looked like this.

base orddb

get customers

def seq-no,1,4,double

ext seq-no=$counter

ext order-no / pst-code

out newfile,link

xeq

If you added any fields to the beginning or end of the
dataset you would have to re-write the script. Now you can write the script as being:

base orddb

get customers

def seq-no,1,4,double

ext seq-no=$counter

ext $all

out newfile,link

xeq

You can also write the script using $first / $last as your
preference, but $first and $last are also useful if you need to add data into
the middle of the fields you extract:

base orddb

get customers

def seq-no,1,4,double

ext $first / zip

ext seq-no=$counter

ext tax-code / $last

out newfile,link

xeq

Please note that if a
self-describing file has a fieldname that is a duplicate field and one of the
duplicate fields is the last field in the file, then $first / $last and $all,
will only extract up to the first occurrence of the duplicate fieldname. This
may seem as an issue but it is consistent with what Suprtool does currently
with extract from a range. Currently and prior to the $first / $last
enhancement Suprtool would have extracted only up to the first occurrence of
the field if you had a file such as this:

>form

File:
newfile(SD Version B.00.00)Has linefeeds

Entry:Offset

CHAR-FIELDX51

INT-FIELDI16

DBL-FIELDI28

PACKED-FIELDP1212

PACKED*-FIELDP1218

QUAD-FIELDI424

ID-FIELDI132

LOGICAL-FIELDK134

DBLLOG-FIELDK236

ZONED-FIELDZ540

FILLERX3645

FILLERX3681

Entry Length: 116Blocking: 1

Notice that FILLER is a duplicate named field, so if you entered,
extract char-field / filler, Suprtool would only extract up to and including
the first FILLER field. For consistency, extract $first / $last behaves the
same way.

Suprtool now supports 512 data items in both Eloquence
datasets and SD files and Oracle fields. STExport and Suprlink have also been
updated to support the increased number of data items in the SD fields that
they read, but please note that other limitations still exist. [5.5.10]

$SubCount has been added to provide a counter that only
gets reset at a given sort break.

In file1sd

Sort char-field

Def control-count,1,4,double

Ext $first / $last

Ext control-count=$subcount(char-field)

Out newfile,link

xeq

What Suprtool will do in this case is start incrementing a
number starting with 1, and increase by 1 for any given char-field value. This
way you can add a counter based on a sort break for a given field.

If Command. Suprtool for Itanium and Suprtool/Open incorrectly
reallocated if/extract code space on subsequent tasks, which would eventually
cause Suprtool to fail with the error, “Unable to allocate heap space.”

Extract
Command.Suprtool would give an incorrect result when doing an Arithmetic
Expression that has more than one set of brackets as in: extract amt-p=(packed-field + packed-field) – (packed-field *2) (Itanium
only)

$edit function. The $edit function did
not work well with alpha based edit masks and if the target was greater than 32
characters.

Output,data. Suprtool would write out double the
calculated record size when set oracle integer was on or set ifouroutput was
on, and output,data option was used and no extract
commands were specified.